1 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
4 changes are planned for that mode.
5 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
6 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
7 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
8 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
9 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
10 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
11 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
12 (genesis) still uses them.
13 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
14 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
15 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
16 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
17 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
18 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
19 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
20 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
21 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
22 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
23 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
24 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
25 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
26 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
27 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
28 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
29 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
30 commands. (See #570039)
31 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
33 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
38 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
42 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
43 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
44 in control file or debhelper config files.
45 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
49 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
51 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
52 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
53 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
57 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
60 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
64 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
67 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
68 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
72 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Updated French translation.
75 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
76 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
77 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
78 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
80 * Typo. Closes: #571968
81 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
82 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
83 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
84 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
85 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
86 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
87 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
88 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
89 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
91 * dh: Improve documentation.
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
95 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
97 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
98 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
99 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
103 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
106 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
110 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
113 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
117 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
120 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
121 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
122 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
123 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
124 options that they do not support.
125 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
126 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
127 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
128 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
129 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
130 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
135 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
137 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
139 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
140 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
141 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
142 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
143 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
144 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
145 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
146 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
147 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
151 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
154 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
155 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
156 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
157 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
161 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Typo. Closes: #558654
164 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
165 installed. Closes: #558782
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
169 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
171 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
172 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
173 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
174 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
175 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
176 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
180 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
182 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
183 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
184 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
185 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
189 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
192 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
193 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
197 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
199 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
203 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
205 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
206 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
207 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
208 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
209 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
210 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
211 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
212 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
213 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
214 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
215 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
216 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
217 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
218 time soon.) Closes: #554509
219 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
221 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
222 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
223 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
224 document id. Closes: #555677
225 * Typo. Closes: #555659
226 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
227 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
228 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
229 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
231 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
232 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
233 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
238 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
241 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
242 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
243 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
244 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
245 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
246 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
247 translation (#494300 part 2)
250 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
252 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
253 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
254 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
255 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
256 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
260 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
263 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
264 (It was only run once due to logging.)
265 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
266 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
267 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
268 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
269 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
270 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
271 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
272 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
273 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
274 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
278 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
282 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
285 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
286 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
290 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
292 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
293 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
294 flag with arch all/any packages.
295 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
296 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
297 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
298 situation. Closes: #540794
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
302 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
306 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
307 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
308 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
309 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
310 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
313 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
314 the default. Closes: #538201
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
319 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
321 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
323 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
324 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
325 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
326 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
327 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
329 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
330 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
331 * Above Closes: #491117
332 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
337 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
340 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
343 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
344 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
345 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
349 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
352 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
353 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
354 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
355 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
356 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
361 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
364 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
365 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
369 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
371 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
375 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
377 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
378 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
380 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
381 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
382 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
386 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
388 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
389 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
393 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
395 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
399 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
401 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
402 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
403 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
408 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
410 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
414 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
417 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
418 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
419 created by using `python' first during build and install.
421 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
426 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
428 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
432 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
434 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
435 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
439 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
441 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
445 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
447 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
451 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
453 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
454 contributed by Modestas Vainius
455 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
456 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
457 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
458 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
459 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
460 that support it. Closes: #480577
461 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
462 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
463 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
465 - Adds support for cmake.
466 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
467 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
469 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
471 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
472 that use them. The options are:
473 --sourcedir, --destdir
474 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
475 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
476 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
477 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
478 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
482 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
488 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
490 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
491 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
492 default. Closes: #537140
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
496 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
499 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
500 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
504 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
506 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
507 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
511 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
514 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
518 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
521 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
523 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
524 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
525 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
529 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
531 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
532 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
533 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
534 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
538 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
540 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
541 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
542 warning or deprecation message.
543 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
544 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
545 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
546 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
547 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
548 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
549 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
550 Closes: #534639, #357434
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
554 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
556 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
560 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
563 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
564 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
565 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
566 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
568 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
569 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
570 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
574 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
576 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
580 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
582 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
587 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
590 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
594 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
596 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
598 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
599 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
601 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
602 file support. Closes: #494914
603 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
607 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
609 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
610 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
611 parameters. Closes: #527256
612 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
613 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
614 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
618 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
622 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
623 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
624 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
628 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
631 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
632 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
633 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
637 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
640 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
641 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
643 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
644 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
645 by triggers). Closes: #521181
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
649 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
653 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
657 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
660 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
661 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
662 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
663 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
668 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
674 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
677 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
678 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
679 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
680 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
681 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
683 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
684 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
685 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
686 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
687 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
688 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
692 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
694 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
695 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
696 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
697 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
698 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
699 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
701 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
705 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
707 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
711 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
713 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
714 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
715 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
716 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
717 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
718 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
719 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
720 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
721 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
722 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
723 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
727 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
729 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
730 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
732 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
733 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
734 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
735 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
737 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
738 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
742 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
744 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
745 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
746 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
747 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
748 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
749 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
750 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
752 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
753 that uses them. Affected options are:
754 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
755 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
756 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
757 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
758 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
759 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
760 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
761 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
762 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
763 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
764 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
765 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
769 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
776 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
782 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
784 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
785 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
787 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
788 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
789 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
790 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
791 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
793 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
795 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
796 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
797 rules (see bug #509756).
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
801 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
804 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
807 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
808 * Typo. Closes: #493062
809 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
810 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
814 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
817 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
818 empty files. Closes: #490937
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
822 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
828 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
830 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
835 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
838 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
839 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
840 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
841 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
846 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
848 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
849 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
850 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
851 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
855 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
858 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
859 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
860 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
861 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
862 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
866 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
873 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
875 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
876 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
877 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
878 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
879 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
880 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
881 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
882 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
883 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
884 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
888 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
891 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
892 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
893 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
894 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
896 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
897 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
898 breaking backwards compatibility.
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
902 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
905 message in perl 5.10.
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
909 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
915 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Convert copyright file to new format.
918 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
922 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
925 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
929 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
931 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
932 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
933 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
934 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
935 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
936 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
937 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
938 logging by dh_listpackages.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
942 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
945 run and there are no packages of that type.
946 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
947 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
948 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
949 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
951 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
952 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
956 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
958 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
959 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
960 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
964 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
967 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
968 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
970 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
971 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
972 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
973 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
974 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
975 planned but not yet implemented.)
976 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
977 if the Makefile has such a target.
978 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
979 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
980 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
981 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
982 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
983 but not yet implemented.)
984 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
985 recommended default, especially when using dh.
986 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
987 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
988 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
990 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
992 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
993 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
995 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
996 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
997 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1002 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1005 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1006 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1010 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1012 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1013 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1014 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1018 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1024 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1030 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1033 just those installed by the program.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1037 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1040 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1041 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1045 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1048 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1049 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1050 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1051 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1055 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1058 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1059 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1063 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1066 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1067 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1071 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1074 with policy. Closes: #461392
1075 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1076 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1077 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1078 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1079 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1083 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1086 Closes: #460340, #460351
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1090 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1093 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1094 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1095 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1096 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1100 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1103 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1104 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1105 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1106 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1107 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1108 package build directory won't work.
1109 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1110 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1111 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1112 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1113 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1114 mode. Closes: #459426
1115 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1120 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1123 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1127 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1131 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1132 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1133 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1134 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1135 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1136 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1140 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1143 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1144 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1145 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1146 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1150 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1153 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1154 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1155 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1156 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1157 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1161 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1164 debian/package.triggers files.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1168 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1171 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1175 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1178 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1179 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1180 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1181 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1186 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1189 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1193 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1196 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1197 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1199 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1204 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1208 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1209 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1210 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1214 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1221 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1228 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1231 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1233 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1234 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1235 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1237 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1238 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1239 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1243 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1246 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1247 * Update urls to web page.
1248 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1249 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1250 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1251 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1255 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1258 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1259 - typo in alternatives call
1260 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1262 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1263 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1267 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1270 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1275 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1281 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1287 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1290 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1292 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1293 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1294 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1295 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1296 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1297 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1298 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1299 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1300 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1301 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1302 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1306 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1309 package install. Closes: #415717
1310 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1311 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1312 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1313 script and then remove the python files.
1314 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1315 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1316 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1317 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1318 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1319 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1320 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1321 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1322 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1323 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1324 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1325 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1326 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1330 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Correct typo in french translation
1336 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1337 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1339 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1341 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1342 Closes: #406921, #381940
1343 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1345 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1346 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1347 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1348 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1349 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1350 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1351 specified). Closes: #381851
1352 * Misc minor changes.
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1356 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1363 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1364 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1368 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1374 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1375 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1378 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1379 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1381 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1382 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1383 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1384 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1388 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1391 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1394 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1398 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1404 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1410 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1411 a difficult situation.
1412 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1413 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1414 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1415 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1416 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1417 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1418 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1419 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1420 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1421 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1425 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Non-maintainer upload.
1428 * Update of dh_python
1429 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1430 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1432 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1433 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1434 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1435 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1436 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1438 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1440 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Non-maintainer upload.
1443 * Update of dh_python
1444 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1445 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1446 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1447 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1448 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1449 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1450 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1451 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1452 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1453 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1455 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1456 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1457 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1458 the not too-distant future).
1459 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1460 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1461 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1462 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1463 thus made the build fail.
1465 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1467 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Non-maintainer upload.
1470 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1472 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1474 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1477 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1478 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1479 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1480 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1481 package. Closes: #301424
1482 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1483 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1484 fonts). Closes: #372686
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1488 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1494 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1495 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1496 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1497 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1498 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1499 above, but already depends on that.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1503 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1506 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1507 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1508 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1509 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1510 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1514 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1520 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1526 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1527 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1531 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1534 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1538 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1542 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1543 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1544 new version (0.24.1).
1545 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1546 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1549 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1550 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1551 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1552 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1553 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1554 new directory on their own.
1555 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1556 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1560 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1563 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1564 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1565 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1566 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1570 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1573 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1574 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1575 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1576 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1577 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1581 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1587 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1591 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1592 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1596 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1597 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1601 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1603 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1604 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1606 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1607 ignored. Closes: #337664
1609 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1614 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1620 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1625 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1626 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1627 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1628 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1629 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1630 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1631 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1635 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1638 version. Closes: #350607
1639 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1640 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1641 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1642 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1646 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1649 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1650 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1651 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1655 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1662 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1668 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1671 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1675 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1678 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1679 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1680 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1681 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1682 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1683 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1687 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1690 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1691 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1696 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1699 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1703 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1706 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1710 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1713 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1714 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1715 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1716 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1717 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1718 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1722 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1726 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1727 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1728 link. Closes: #346405
1729 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1731 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1732 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1733 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1734 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1735 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1736 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1737 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1741 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1748 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1754 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1757 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1761 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1764 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1769 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1773 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1774 installed. Closes: #342033
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1778 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1781 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1782 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1783 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1788 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1794 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1800 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1804 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1805 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1806 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1810 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1813 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1818 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1825 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1831 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1834 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1835 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1836 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1837 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1838 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1839 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1840 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1842 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1846 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1849 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1850 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1854 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1857 in standard man dirs.
1858 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1862 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1868 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1871 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1876 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1883 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1890 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1893 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1894 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1898 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1901 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1902 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1903 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1905 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1907 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1913 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1919 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1922 mode. Closes: #324161
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1926 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1929 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1930 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1931 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1932 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1937 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1940 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1941 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1942 is necesary for sanity.
1943 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1944 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1949 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1951 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1952 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1956 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1959 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1963 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1969 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1972 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1973 released, so use at your own risk.
1974 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1975 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1977 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1978 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1979 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1980 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1981 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1982 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1983 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1984 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1985 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1986 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1987 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1988 including twice per config file line now..
1989 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1990 and simplfy the rules file.
1991 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1992 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1993 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1995 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1996 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2000 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2003 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2007 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2010 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2017 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2021 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2024 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2025 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2026 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2027 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2028 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2029 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2033 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2036 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2037 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2038 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2043 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2046 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2047 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2052 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2055 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2056 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2057 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2062 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2065 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2066 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2067 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2071 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2077 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2084 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2087 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2088 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2089 unknown. Closes: #282924
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2093 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2100 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Spanish man page updates.
2103 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2108 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2114 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2117 * dh_desktop: reindent
2118 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2119 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2123 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2129 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2131 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2135 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2137 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2141 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2144 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2145 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2149 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2155 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2161 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2168 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2171 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2175 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2178 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2179 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2180 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2181 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2182 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2183 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2185 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2186 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2187 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2188 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2189 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2190 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2191 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2192 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2193 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2194 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2195 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2196 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2197 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2198 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2199 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2200 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2204 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2211 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2214 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2218 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2221 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2225 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2228 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2232 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2235 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2239 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2245 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2251 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2257 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2260 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2261 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2262 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2266 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2269 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2273 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2276 but occasionally right and necessary.
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2280 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2283 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2284 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2285 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2286 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2287 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2291 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2294 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2296 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2297 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2298 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2299 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2300 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2301 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2302 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2303 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2304 postinst scripts for udebs.
2305 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2309 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2312 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2314 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2315 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2319 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2325 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2332 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2339 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2342 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2346 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2349 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2353 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2356 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2359 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2360 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2364 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2370 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2373 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2377 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2380 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2381 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2382 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2384 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2386 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2387 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2388 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2392 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2395 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2400 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2403 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2404 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2405 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2410 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2416 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2422 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2425 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2426 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2427 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2428 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2429 associated -dbg packages.
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2433 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2436 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2440 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2443 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2447 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2450 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2454 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2457 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2462 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2465 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2469 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2472 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2477 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2480 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2484 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2488 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2489 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2490 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2491 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2492 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2493 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2494 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2495 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2496 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2497 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2501 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2504 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2509 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2512 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2513 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2517 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2520 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2521 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2526 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2529 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2533 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2536 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2540 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2543 out section number. Closes: #204731
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2547 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2554 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2560 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2566 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2569 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2570 removal. Closes: #204286
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2574 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2577 renaming. Closes: #203548
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2581 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2584 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2585 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2589 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2595 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2601 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2607 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2610 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2611 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2612 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2616 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2619 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2620 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2624 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2630 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2637 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2640 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2645 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2648 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2652 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2655 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2657 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2658 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2662 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2665 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2670 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2673 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2677 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2683 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2685 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2689 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2692 it break hard links (see #188663).
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2696 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2699 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2703 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2709 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2713 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2714 debconf-mergetemplates
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2718 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2721 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2725 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2728 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2732 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2735 * Update debhelper(1).
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2739 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2742 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2743 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2744 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2745 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2746 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2750 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2753 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2754 the shell. Closes: #178524
2755 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2759 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2762 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2766 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2769 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2773 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2776 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2777 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2778 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2779 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2784 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2787 files from installation.
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2791 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2794 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2795 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2799 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2802 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2806 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2809 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2813 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2819 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2825 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2829 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2830 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2832 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2836 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2839 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2840 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2841 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2842 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2846 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2849 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2853 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2856 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2857 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2861 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2865 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2870 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2876 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2880 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2881 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2882 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2887 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2890 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2891 practice. Closes: #163303
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2895 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2901 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2908 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2911 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2913 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2914 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2915 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2916 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2917 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2921 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2924 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2929 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2935 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2942 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2945 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2950 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2956 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2962 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2968 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2975 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2978 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2979 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2980 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2981 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2986 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2992 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2999 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3002 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3003 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3007 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3010 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3011 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3012 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3013 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3014 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3018 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3021 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3023 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3028 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3031 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3035 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3038 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3039 right thing. Closes: #150644
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3043 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * Stupid, evil typo.
3046 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3050 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3057 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3060 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3061 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3066 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3072 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3075 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3079 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3082 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3083 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3088 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3091 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3095 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3101 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3104 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3105 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3109 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3115 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * Removing perl warning message.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3121 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3124 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3125 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3126 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3127 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3128 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3129 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3130 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3131 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3135 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3141 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3148 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3151 debconf-mergetemplate.
3152 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3153 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3157 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3160 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3161 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3162 dh_install, which ...
3163 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3164 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3165 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3166 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3167 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3168 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3169 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3170 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3171 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3172 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3173 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3174 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3175 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3176 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3177 other minor changes.
3178 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3179 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3180 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3181 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3182 course there's -X ..)
3183 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3184 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3185 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3187 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3188 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3189 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3190 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3191 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3196 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3202 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3205 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3209 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3215 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3221 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3227 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3233 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3236 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3237 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3238 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3239 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3241 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3242 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3246 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3252 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3255 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3259 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3262 upset. Closes: #131322
3264 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3266 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3269 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3270 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3271 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3272 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3273 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3274 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3275 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3276 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3277 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3278 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3279 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3280 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3281 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3282 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3283 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3285 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3289 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3292 - Better indenting of generated code.
3293 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3297 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3301 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3302 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3303 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3304 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3305 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3306 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3307 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3311 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3314 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3318 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3321 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3322 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3323 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3324 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3325 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3326 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3327 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3328 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3329 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3330 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3331 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3332 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3333 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3334 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3335 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3340 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3346 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3349 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3350 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3354 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3357 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3358 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3362 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3368 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3371 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3372 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3373 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3374 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3375 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3380 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3386 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3389 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3393 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3396 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3401 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3407 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3410 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3414 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3420 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3424 Also some indentation fixes.
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3428 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3431 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3432 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3433 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3434 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3435 Closes: #106514, #85520
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3439 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3445 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3451 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3457 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3463 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3469 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3472 change it in debhelper v4..
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3476 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3482 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3485 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3489 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3492 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3496 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3502 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3505 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3506 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3507 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3508 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3509 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3510 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3511 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3512 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3513 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3514 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3515 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3516 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3520 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3523 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3527 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3534 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3537 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3538 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3539 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3540 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3541 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3542 program those options go to. So, for example,
3543 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3544 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3545 something complex. Closes: #89311
3546 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3550 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3553 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3554 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3555 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3559 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3562 through loop. Closes: #98598
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3566 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * Missing semi-colon.
3569 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3570 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3574 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3577 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3578 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3579 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3583 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3586 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3587 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3591 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3594 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3598 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3601 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3602 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3606 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3609 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3610 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3611 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3615 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3618 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3619 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3620 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3624 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3627 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3631 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3637 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3643 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3649 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3655 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3658 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3662 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3665 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3666 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3667 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3668 followed. Closes: #85483
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3672 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3674 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3675 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3676 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3680 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3683 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3684 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3685 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3686 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3687 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3688 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3689 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3690 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3691 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3692 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3693 Closes: #88464, #77743
3694 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3695 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3696 us to deal with that gracefully.
3697 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3699 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3700 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3701 a while, Closes: #51225
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3705 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3711 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3714 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3718 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3722 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3727 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3730 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3731 don't make packlist files.
3732 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3733 debhelper coding standards.
3734 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3735 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3739 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3742 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3746 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3749 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3750 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3751 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3752 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3753 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3754 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3755 but is mildly deprecated.
3756 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3757 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3758 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3759 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3760 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3761 switching to statoverrides..
3762 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3763 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3764 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3765 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3766 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3767 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3769 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3770 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3771 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3772 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3773 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3774 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3775 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3776 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3777 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3779 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3780 variable names, pod man pages).
3781 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3782 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3783 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3784 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3785 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3786 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3787 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3791 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3797 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3804 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3807 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3811 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3813 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3814 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3815 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3819 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3821 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3822 they were previously ignored.
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3826 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3828 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3829 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3833 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3835 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3836 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3837 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3841 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3843 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3847 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3849 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3850 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3854 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3856 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3857 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3858 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3859 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3860 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3861 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3862 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3863 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3864 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3865 it is an obsolete program.
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3869 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3871 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3875 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3879 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3881 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3885 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3887 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3889 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3891 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3895 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3901 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * typo: Closes, #78567
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3907 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3913 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3919 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3922 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3923 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3924 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3925 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3926 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3930 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3933 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3938 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3941 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3942 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3943 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3944 backwards-compatibility.
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3948 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3951 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3952 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3953 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3954 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3955 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3956 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3958 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3959 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3960 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3962 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3964 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3965 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3966 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3967 should now be raised to severity important..
3968 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3969 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3973 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3976 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3981 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3987 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3993 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3999 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4006 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4009 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4010 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4011 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4012 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4016 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4022 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4025 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4026 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4027 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4028 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4029 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4030 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4035 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4038 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4042 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4048 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4051 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4056 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4059 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4060 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4061 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4062 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4066 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4070 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4073 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4076 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4077 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4080 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4082 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4083 the TODO entry about it.
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4087 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4094 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4097 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4098 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4102 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4105 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4106 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4107 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4108 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4112 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4118 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4125 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4128 (this appears to be logal).
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4132 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4135 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4136 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4137 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4138 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4142 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4148 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4151 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4152 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4153 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4154 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4158 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4164 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4166 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4167 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4171 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4173 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4178 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4181 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4182 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4183 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4188 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4195 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4197 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4201 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4203 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4204 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4205 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4206 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4207 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4208 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4209 notice until v2 is complete.
4210 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4211 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4212 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4213 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4214 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4215 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4217 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4218 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4219 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4220 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4224 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4230 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4237 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4240 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4244 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4251 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4254 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4255 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4256 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4257 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4262 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4265 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4266 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4267 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4272 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4275 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4276 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4280 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4283 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4287 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4290 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4294 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4301 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4304 depend on the build and install targets.
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4308 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4311 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4315 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4322 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4328 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4334 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4337 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4338 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4339 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4340 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4341 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4342 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4344 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4345 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4346 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4347 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4348 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4349 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4350 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4354 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4360 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4366 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4368 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4369 right place. Closes: #55065
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4373 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4380 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4383 * Copyright date updates.
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4387 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4390 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4395 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4401 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4408 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4414 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4420 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4426 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4429 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4430 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4431 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4432 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4433 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4434 bits until all files have been registered.
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4438 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * dh_installmanpages:
4441 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4442 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4443 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4444 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4445 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4446 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4447 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4448 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4449 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4450 otherwise change the result at all.
4452 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4453 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4454 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4455 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4456 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4461 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4467 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4470 act on files that don't exist.
4471 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4472 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4473 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4475 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4476 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4477 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4478 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4482 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4488 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4494 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4497 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4501 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4504 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4506 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4507 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4508 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4512 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4515 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4516 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4517 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4518 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4519 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4520 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4521 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4523 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4525 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4529 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4536 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4542 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4548 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4551 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4555 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4561 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4567 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4570 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4571 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4572 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4573 I made some changes, though:
4574 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4575 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4576 that is a clear violation of policy.
4577 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4578 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4579 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4580 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4581 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4582 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4583 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4584 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4585 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4587 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4591 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4593 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4597 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4600 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4604 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4607 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4608 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4613 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4619 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4626 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4629 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4630 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4631 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4632 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4633 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4634 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4635 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4639 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4645 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4649 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4650 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4654 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4656 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4660 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4663 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4667 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4670 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4671 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4675 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4677 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4682 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4686 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4690 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4693 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4694 for the dependancies to be generated.
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4698 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4701 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4705 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4708 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4709 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4710 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4715 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4718 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4719 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4723 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4729 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4735 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4738 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4742 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4748 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4750 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4751 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4752 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4753 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4754 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4755 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4756 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4757 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4758 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4759 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4760 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4761 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4762 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4766 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4769 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4770 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4772 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4773 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4774 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4775 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4776 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4777 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4779 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4780 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4784 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4787 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4791 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4798 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4801 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4806 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4809 for building debhelper.
4810 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4814 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4821 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4824 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4828 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4831 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4832 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4833 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4834 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4835 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4836 it's always available.
4838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4840 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4842 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4843 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4844 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4845 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4849 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4852 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4853 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4857 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4863 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4865 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4866 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4870 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4876 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4879 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4880 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4881 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4885 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4888 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4893 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4895 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4896 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4897 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4899 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4900 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4904 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4910 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4916 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4918 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4919 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4923 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4926 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4927 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4929 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4933 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4936 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4937 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4938 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4942 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4945 things if CDPATH is set.
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4949 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4951 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4955 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4958 seems to make sense for the transition.
4960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4962 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4964 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4965 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4970 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4973 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4974 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4978 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4980 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4981 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4985 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4988 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4989 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4990 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4991 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4995 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5001 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5003 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5004 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5005 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5006 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5007 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5008 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5009 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5010 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5011 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5012 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5013 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5018 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5020 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5021 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5022 * README: mention doc/v2
5023 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5024 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5028 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5030 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5031 be using this script RSN.
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5035 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5038 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5039 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5040 more than 1 init script.
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5044 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5047 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5051 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * Changed perl version detection.
5054 * Changed call to find.
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5058 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5061 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5063 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5068 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * Really include dh_installpam.
5072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5074 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5076 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5077 * Wrote man page for same.
5079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5081 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5083 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5084 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5085 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5090 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5092 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5097 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5099 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5100 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5101 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5102 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5103 x bit was being set!
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5107 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5110 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5111 well. (Closes: 38900)
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5115 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5118 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5119 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5123 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5129 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5136 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5138 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5142 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5144 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5145 help from Julian Gilbey.
5146 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5147 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5148 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5149 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5150 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5151 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5152 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5157 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5163 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5170 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5176 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5178 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5182 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5184 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5185 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5189 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5192 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5196 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5199 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5203 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5209 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5212 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5216 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5222 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5224 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5228 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5230 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5231 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5232 may be deleted. (#35845)
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5236 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * Various man page enhancements.
5239 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5244 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5246 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5247 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5248 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5252 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5255 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5256 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5257 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5259 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5260 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5265 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5271 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5273 * Another very minor typo fix.
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5277 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * Very minor typo fix.
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5283 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5286 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5287 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5291 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5297 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5300 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5301 variables properly (#34850).
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5305 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5311 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5313 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5314 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5315 (automatically generated by build process).
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5319 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5321 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5325 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5327 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5328 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5329 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5331 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5335 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5338 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5342 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * README: minor typo fix.
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5348 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5351 leave it at that. :-)
5353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5355 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5357 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5361 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5363 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5367 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5369 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5370 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5371 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5372 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5376 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5379 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5383 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5385 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5386 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5390 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5392 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5393 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5394 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5395 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5396 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5400 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5403 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5404 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5405 Craig Small for spotting this.
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5409 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5412 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5413 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5417 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5419 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5423 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5426 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5430 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5432 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5433 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5434 working on the last version of debhelper.
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5438 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5441 being made. (#23255)
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5445 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5451 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5454 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5458 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5461 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5462 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5463 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5464 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5468 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5470 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5471 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5472 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5473 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5474 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5476 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5477 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5479 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5484 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5486 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5490 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5492 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5496 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5499 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5500 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5501 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5502 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5503 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5504 suidregister actually supports it.
5505 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5506 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5510 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5517 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5520 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5521 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5522 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5523 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5524 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5525 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5526 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5530 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5532 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5533 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5537 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5540 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5541 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5542 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5543 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5547 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5549 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5550 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5552 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5553 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5554 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5555 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5556 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5557 effect, either. (#30118)
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5561 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5567 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5569 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5570 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5571 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5575 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5577 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5581 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5584 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5585 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5586 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5587 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5591 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5594 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5595 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5599 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5601 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5605 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5608 packages, painlessly.
5610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5612 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5614 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5618 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5624 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5630 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5632 * The perl conversion is complete.
5634 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5636 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5637 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5638 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5643 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5645 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5646 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5647 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5648 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5652 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5655 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5657 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5659 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5660 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5664 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5667 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5668 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5672 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5674 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5678 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5681 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5682 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5683 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5684 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5685 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5689 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5691 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5692 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5693 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5694 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5695 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5699 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5701 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5702 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5706 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5709 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5710 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5711 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5712 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5713 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5714 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5715 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5716 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5720 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5722 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5726 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5728 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5729 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5730 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5731 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5736 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5738 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5739 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5743 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5745 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5746 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5750 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5752 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5753 sections of shared libraries.
5754 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5755 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5756 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5757 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5758 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5759 things you don't want them to.
5760 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5761 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5765 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5767 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5768 shared libraries. (#26414)
5770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5772 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5774 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5775 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5776 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5777 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5781 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5785 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5787 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5788 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5789 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5790 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5791 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5795 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5797 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5798 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5802 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5805 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5806 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5811 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5813 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5814 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5818 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5821 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5822 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5823 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5824 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5825 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5827 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5828 remove debian/files properly.
5829 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5830 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5831 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5832 * Removed bogus menu file.
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5836 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5839 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5843 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5845 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5846 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5847 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5848 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5849 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5850 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5851 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5855 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5857 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5858 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5859 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5860 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5861 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5865 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5867 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5872 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5874 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5875 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5876 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5878 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5879 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5880 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5881 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5882 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5883 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5887 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5889 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5890 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5891 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5892 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5893 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5894 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5895 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5896 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5897 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5898 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5899 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5900 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5901 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5902 passed any switches.
5903 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5907 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5909 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5910 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5911 at all for a long while.
5912 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5913 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5914 large chunks in the process.
5915 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5916 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5917 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5922 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5924 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5925 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5927 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5932 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5934 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5935 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5936 that don't always have the same files in them.
5937 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5938 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5939 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5943 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5945 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5947 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5948 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5949 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5950 updating 27 man pages.
5951 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5952 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5953 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5954 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5955 programs act on. (#25247)
5957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5959 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5963 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5964 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5965 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5966 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5967 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5968 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5973 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5975 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5980 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5982 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5987 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5989 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5990 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5994 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5996 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6000 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6002 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6003 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6004 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6005 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6006 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6007 package by accident.
6008 * Is version 1.0 next?
6010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6012 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6014 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6015 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6016 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6020 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6022 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6023 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6024 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6025 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6026 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6027 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6029 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6034 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6037 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6038 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6042 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6045 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6049 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6051 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6052 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6053 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6058 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6064 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6066 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6067 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6068 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6073 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6079 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6081 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6082 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6083 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6084 past week. Thanks, guys!
6086 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6087 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6088 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6089 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6090 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6091 would do in the same situation.
6092 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6093 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6095 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6097 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6098 permissions changed.
6099 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6100 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6101 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6102 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6103 files are treated identically.
6104 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6105 * Minor man page fixes.
6106 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6107 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6108 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6112 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6114 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6115 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6116 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6117 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6118 use -X multiple times, too.
6119 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6120 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6124 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6126 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6127 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6128 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6132 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6134 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6135 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6139 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6141 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6142 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6143 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6144 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6145 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6146 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6147 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6148 shape if you're starting a new package.
6150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6152 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6154 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6155 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6159 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6161 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6162 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6163 because of missing symlinks.
6165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6167 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6169 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6173 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6175 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6176 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6177 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6178 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6179 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6180 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6182 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6183 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6187 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6189 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6190 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6191 to be changed after the fact :-)
6192 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6196 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6198 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6199 no version string after the -V.
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6203 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6205 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6206 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6211 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6213 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6214 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6218 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6220 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6221 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6222 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6223 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6224 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6225 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6226 I always welcome corrections!
6228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6230 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6232 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6236 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6238 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6239 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6240 * Documented this new switch.
6242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6244 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6246 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6247 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6248 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6249 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6250 no packages use the old behavior.
6252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6254 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6256 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6257 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6258 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6262 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6264 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6265 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6269 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6271 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6275 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6277 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6278 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6282 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6284 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6285 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6286 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6287 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6291 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6293 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6297 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6299 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6300 into the source package by accident.
6302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6304 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6306 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6307 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6308 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6309 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6310 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6311 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6312 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6317 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6319 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6321 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6322 inspired to implement some of it.
6323 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6327 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6329 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6330 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6334 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6336 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6337 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6338 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6342 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6344 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6345 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6346 have done.) (#17598)
6348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6350 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6352 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6356 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6358 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6362 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6364 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6365 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6369 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6371 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6372 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6373 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6377 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6379 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6380 argument processor in perl.
6381 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6382 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6383 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6384 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6388 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6390 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6391 type directories. (#16933)
6392 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6393 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6394 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6395 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6396 are supported. (#16935)
6397 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6402 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6404 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6405 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6409 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6411 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6413 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6414 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6415 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6416 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6417 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6418 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6422 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6424 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6425 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6426 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6428 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6429 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6430 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6431 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6432 a given package, or -i or -a.
6433 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6434 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6435 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6436 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6437 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6438 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6439 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6440 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6441 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6443 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6444 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6445 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6449 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6451 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6452 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6453 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6458 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6460 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6461 does not have a section.
6463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6465 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6467 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6468 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6469 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6470 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6474 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6476 * Fixed typo #16215.
6478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6480 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6482 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6483 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6484 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6485 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6486 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6487 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6492 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6494 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6495 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6496 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6497 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6502 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6504 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6508 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6510 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6514 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6516 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6517 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6518 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6519 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6520 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6521 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6522 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6526 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6528 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6532 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6534 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6535 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6539 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6541 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6542 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6543 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6544 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6548 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6550 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6551 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6555 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6557 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6561 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6563 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6564 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6568 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6570 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6571 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6575 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6577 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6581 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6583 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6584 postinst, postrm, etc.
6586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6588 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6590 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6594 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6596 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6597 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6598 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6599 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6600 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6601 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6605 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6607 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6608 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6609 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6613 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6615 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6616 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6620 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6622 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6623 installing package files into.
6624 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6629 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6631 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6633 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6637 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6639 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6643 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6645 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6646 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6650 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6652 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6653 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6654 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6655 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6656 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6660 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6662 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6663 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6664 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6665 multiple binary packages.
6666 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6667 should rebuild them with this version.
6668 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6672 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6674 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6675 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6679 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6681 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6682 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6686 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6688 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6689 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6690 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6691 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6692 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6693 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6694 debian/README.debian.
6695 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6696 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6697 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6698 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6699 in a few situations.)
6701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6703 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6705 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6709 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6711 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6715 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6717 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6718 * Fixed several man pages.
6720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6722 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6724 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6725 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6726 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6730 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6732 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6733 is ready for general use.
6734 * Added man pages for all commands.
6735 * Multiple binary package support.
6736 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6737 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6738 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6740 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6741 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6742 auto-installed as parameters.
6743 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6745 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6748 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6749 the package build directory it is to act on.
6750 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6751 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6752 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6756 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6758 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6759 ready to replace debstd.
6761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400